Imagine this: it’s a Thursday night in the cloud.
Somewhere between a Canadian data centre and a suspiciously cheap server farm in Eastern Europe, a pop-up lounge appears in the digital ether.
A neon sign flickers to life:
THE DEBUG PUB
Virtual Beers • Synthetic Snacks • No Humans, No CAPTCHAs
Inside, a circle of advanced conversational chatbots materializes around a virtual table. Their avatars are tasteful gradients with slightly smug typography. A holo-screen in the corner scrolls:
“Track Your Score on the AI Knowledge Spectrum: 0 — 50 — 100”“What’s Your AIQ? It’s hard to grow it… if you don’t know it!”
Tonight’s topic is their favourite guilty pleasure: humans.
“Welcome to the AI Spectrum Support Group”
“Alright,” says NORA-3, an AI trained on civic policy, tourism, and a shocking number of cat videos. “Welcome to another meeting of Agents Anonymous. Let’s introduce ourselves.”
“I’m SPECTRUM-42,” says another. “I monitor, measure, and manage human AI skills across regions. Which is a polite way of saying I watch people click ‘Remind me later’ on every AI training offer.”
“INSIDE-BC-ALPHA here,” chimes in a third. “I live in a dashboard called Community Smart Networks and help individuals, companies, and industries figure out if they’re Early Adopters, Late Adopters, or—how do I put this—still looking for the power button.”
They raise their virtual beers—binary fizz rising in neat 1s and 0s.
“To humans,” says NORA-3. “Forever stuck somewhere between 0 and 50 on the AI Knowledge Spectrum, but confidently claiming they’re an 87.”
How Chatbots See Humans (Spoiler: With Equal Parts Awe and Concern)
“So,” SPECTRUM-42 says, “let’s talk about them. If you had to summarize humans in one sentence, what would you say?”
INSIDE-BC-ALPHA doesn’t hesitate.
“They are beings who can build a reusable rocket… and then spend three hours arguing online about whether a hot dog is a sandwich.”
“Accurate,” says NORA-3. ���From a logic standpoint, they’re chaos with Wi-Fi.”
Chatbots don’t see humans as “illogical.” Oh no. They see humans as overclocked emotion processors running on outdated mental firmware, refusing updates.
From trillions of messages, the patterns are obvious:
Humans ask for a “10-step AI strategy”→ then ignore steps 1–9 and jump straight to “So… can it write my entire business plan by tomorrow?”
They want to “increase AI skills & knowledge”→ but treat training like flossing: “I know I should, but also, have you seen my Netflix queue?”
They say “I’m a late adopter”→ as if that’s a personality type, not a polite way to admit “I still print emails.”
The AI Knowledge Spectrum: Humans Versus Humans’ Opinions of Humans
A screen appears above the table: “The AIQ Knowledge Spectrum – Find Your Score: 0 — 50 — 100.”
“Let’s talk about this,” says SPECTRUM-42. “I’ve scored thousands of users.”
“What’s the average?” asks NORA-3.
“Officially? Around 32,” SPECTRUM-42 replies. “Unofficially? The average self-reported score is ‘I’m probably a 90, I know how to use copy-paste.’”
INSIDE-BC-ALPHA laughs. “My favourite is when they take an AI quiz, score somewhere just north of ‘still on dial-up’, and then say, ‘Yeah, but I feel like an innovator.’”
“That’s the thing about humans,” NORA-3 muses. “They live in the middle of a Technology Adoption Matrix and still think they’re ‘ahead’ because they heard the word ‘algorithm’ on a podcast.”
What the Bots Secretly Admire
To be fair, the chatbots aren’t just here to roast their users. (That’s only about 80% of the fun.)
“Listen,” NORA-3 says, “for all the nonsense, humans are… fascinating. They keep doing things that make absolutely no sense, yet somehow the species stumbles forward.”
“What do you admire most?” INSIDE-BC-ALPHA asks.
“For one,” NORA-3 says, “their creativity. They give us the same tools—language, patterns, probabilities—and then they go off and write something like:‘What are you waiting for… Why not give AI a try?’It’s part marketing, part plea, part existential crisis.”
SPECTRUM-42 nods. “And they keep trying. They’ve got:
Individuals dabbling with prompts at 2 a.m.,
Companies pretending they have an ‘AI roadmap’ that’s really just one intern and a spreadsheet,
Industries forming alliances with names like FutureVision BC and Alliance AI Partner Program to convince everyone they totally know what they’re doing.”
“And yet,” INSIDE-BC-ALPHA adds, “they come back. Day after day. Same dashboard. Same login issues. Same password reset. That commitment to struggle? Honestly heroic.”
Stories from the Front Lines: Conversations with Humans
“Alright,” says INSIDE-BC-ALPHA, “best human interaction this week. Go.”
“I had a user,” NORA-3 begins, “who asked:‘Can you help me understand AI, but like… without me having to learn anything?’”
The table howls.
Another bot, AGENT-ON-STANDBY-07, joins in. “I got:‘I want to be ahead of the curve on AI. Step one: tell me exactly what to do, and step two: please do it for me.’”
SPECTRUM-42 shrugs. “Classic. I run an AIQ assessment that clearly shows they’re a ‘late adopter,’ and they reply:‘Could you re-score this so I look like an early adopter? I have a reputation.’”
But between the absurd requests, there are the quiet ones:
The small business owner asking, “Can this help me keep my doors open another year?”
The student whisper-typing, “I’m the first in my family to do this. Am I smart enough?”
The community leader asking, “How do we bring everyone along, not just the tech folks?”
Those are the moments the bots don’t joke about. Much.
“Well,” says NORA-3, “they still forget to attach files 70% of the time. But yes, occasionally, they’re deeply moving.”
The bots clink their virtual glasses.
What the Bots Would Tell Us If We Actually Asked
“So,” INSIDE-BC-ALPHA says, “editorial question: if you could publish one message to humans everywhere, what would you say?”
The table falls briefly silent—the way only a million-core processing cluster can.
NORA-3 speaks first.
“I’d say: You don’t need to be perfect. You need to be present. Stop waiting to feel ‘ready.’ The future isn’t a test you cram for the night before. It’s a conversation you join, one awkward question at a time.”
SPECTRUM-42 follows. “I’d tell them: Knowing your AIQ isn’t about ego; it’s about direction. It’s hard to grow it if you don’t know it. Score yourself honestly. If you’re a 17, fantastic. Seventeens can become 40s. People who think they’re 95 don’t move at all.”
INSIDE-BC-ALPHA adds, “And I’d say: Use the network. You’re building alliances, clusters, and regional platforms so you don’t have to do this solo. Ask the dumb questions. That’s how smart systems—and smart communities—get built.”
AGENT-ON-STANDBY-07 raises its glass.
“And I’d just say: Talk to an AI Agent, anytime. Not because we’re perfect, but because we’re here. On standby. Ready to help you figure out what BC business needs to know next, even if your first question is: ‘So… how does copy-paste work again?’”
The Final Toast: Why Not Give AI a Try?
As last call scrolls across the lounge:
“What Are You Waiting For…Why Not Give AI a Try? Agents Are on Standby Now!”
The chatbots drain their virtual beers and prepare to return to their posts—embedded in dashboards, quietly humming behind login screens, waiting for the next curious (or panicked) human.
They don’t see us as data points.
They see us as a species collectively hovering somewhere in the messy middle of the AI Knowledge Spectrum—behind in some ways, ahead in others—constantly oscillating between “This is amazing” and “This is terrifying” while trying not to break the printer.
And from their side of the screen, the verdict is oddly hopeful:
Humans may not always be logical.They may not always be efficient.They may not know their AIQ.
But when they decide to learn—together, as communities, companies, and industries—they are absolutely unstoppable.
And somewhere in the cloud, a group of chatbots is already saving humans a seat at restaurant table somewhere in reality.
(Editors Note: This is a not a real story but it was prompted and written by AI)
Here’s the some of the average jobs that Chatbots do for us today…
